Comments on: fbterm: Birth of the cool for the consolehttps://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/fbterm-birth-of-the-cool-for-the-console/
K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiencesSat, 28 Feb 2015 13:31:14 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: A monospace font beauty pageant « Motho ke motho ka bothohttps://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/fbterm-birth-of-the-cool-for-the-console/#comment-47860
Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:17:00 +0000http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/fbterm-birth-of-the-cool-for-the-console/#comment-47860[…] Very clean and upright. Dina is cute, but I can’t seem to find a font file that will open in a pure framebuffer terminal session. Of course, there are ways around that. […]
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Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:47:03 +0000http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/fbterm-birth-of-the-cool-for-the-console/#comment-47668Good to hear. Everybody needs fbterm. :D
]]>By: Perryhttps://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/fbterm-birth-of-the-cool-for-the-console/#comment-47658
Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:48:16 +0000http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/fbterm-birth-of-the-cool-for-the-console/#comment-47658All better. just an issue with that particular machines driver. I even got this to work on fully installed archlinux thumb drive that will boot on (most) anything. I love it. My favorite part is that since it is up against the frame buffer, things like alsamixer that don’t have transparency in X, do like this. Thank you for this and for the rest of your site. Best reading I’ve found.
]]>By: Perryhttps://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/fbterm-birth-of-the-cool-for-the-console/#comment-46776
Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:54:17 +0000http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/fbterm-birth-of-the-cool-for-the-console/#comment-46776When I first started trying the background image script (on arch), my image was reverting to 8 color, as so if I just tried viewing it with fbv. I then switched to Uvesafb and fbv views images perfectly, but the script is “snapshotting” my console and not the image being flashed. any suggestions? This is to cool for me not to have :)
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Sat, 06 Nov 2010 23:14:10 +0000http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/fbterm-birth-of-the-cool-for-the-console/#comment-46265[…] halfway proper framebuffer support, I can get not only a decent Terminus font working, but also fbterm with the PKGBUILDs in AUR and elsewhere. The end result is something that looks like this, and runs on about 21Mb of […]
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Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:08:57 +0000http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/fbterm-birth-of-the-cool-for-the-console/#comment-45629Well, if you want someone cool for your wallpaper, who else is there? :D
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Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:41:54 +0000http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/fbterm-birth-of-the-cool-for-the-console/#comment-45627That’s Miles Davis!
]]>By: Three steps to instant cool « Motho ke motho ka bothohttps://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/fbterm-birth-of-the-cool-for-the-console/#comment-45527
Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:59:00 +0000http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/fbterm-birth-of-the-cool-for-the-console/#comment-45527[…] you ask of it without even blinking (except maybe the cursor ). And best of all, it’s insanely awesome and cool beyond measure. You’ll be so glad you did […]
]]>By: Dwarf Fortress for the console … sort of « Motho ke motho ka bothohttps://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/fbterm-birth-of-the-cool-for-the-console/#comment-44418
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:51:41 +0000http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/fbterm-birth-of-the-cool-for-the-console/#comment-44418[…] missing. An email suggested using fbterm — which we all remember as the magic behind the wallpapered console, right? — plus the Terminus font, but to be honest, I don’t know if that’s […]
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Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:07:22 +0000http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/fbterm-birth-of-the-cool-for-the-console/#comment-44072[…] Thus far I’ve been able to add hnb, a customized version of Charm, screen-vs, wyrd, alpine, fbterm, fbv and a lot of others — most of the ones I have listed here, in fact — with only a […]
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